GNACS

GNAC:

• Genre
• Narrative
• Atmosphere
• Character

These 4 factors are key in filming, they represent the basic structure of a film and essentially are some of the most important factors.

GENRE

Genre is essentially the backbone and basis of the film, it sets the feeling and mood. A genre can be recognised by its common set of distinguishing features

What you can learn from genre is how big an audience is for each genre and how popular each genre is. This is important because if we do an unpopular genre, people simply will not watch it.

NARRATIVE

Narrative in media is basically the media term for 'story telling.' 

Narrative is the way different elements are organised to form a story, an example of these elements would be in documentaries or characters in a drama or comedy (Will- Inbetweeners)

ATMOSPHERE

Atmosphere is the genuine feeling the movie gives the audience, essentially the way the audience interprets the text (denotation). Atmosphere can be anything, the surrounding, characters or the dialogue for example, in a comedy you would expect calmer, friendly dialogue, a friendly setting and a lively main character. Whereas, in a horror, we would expect a darker atmosphere, where our character would be horrible, surroundings dark and low key lit, and freaky dialogue. 

CHARACTER

Character in media is crucial, the character is the main characteristic of a film,simply because they represent the film. Our character 'Felix' will be important as our film focuses just on him, and will portray the conventions of todays representation of skaters. So it will be important to nail the characteristic side of our filming much like the rest of the GNAC Factors.

Sound terminology - Understanding Basic Sound

Pleonastic- Sound which is heightened to create fear, tension, excitement etc

Ambient - Background sounds which are present in the scene e.g. animals, people, weather etc

Selective - Sound which is used to place emphasis on certain things in a scene 

Sound Bridge - At the beginning of a new scene the sound is carried over from the end of the old scene

Sound Effects – Sounds which are used to make a psychological impact or place emphasis on certain things in a scene

Score – Music which is played during a scene which can create a certain mood, link two scenes or help add to the plot

Silence – Used to create suspense or get some sort of reaction from the audience

Theme music – Music which is played throughout the movie and is used to develop the narrative and match the theme of the movie

Voice over – The voice of a character which is used to guide or inform the audience but can also mislead them

Synchronous – When a sound matches an action or event on screen and can be used to emphasize it

Asynchronous – When a sound or music does not come from the diegetic reality of the movie

Contrapuntal – Sound which does not match with what is happening on screen and is used to create a different meaning 

Diegetic - Sound which is the source is currently coming from someone or something on screen e.g. Characters speaking

Non-Diegetic - Sound which the source does not come from something that is happening on screen e.g. Narration

What I can learn from these key terms is the basic sound terms in media so when doing coursework i can buff up my grades with good knowledge and terminology on the sound aspect of media. 

Risk assessment

British film analysis

Eddie the Eagle is an example of a British produced film. The company responsible for the production is MARV productions.

Eddie the Eagle pulled in $46 millions worth of grosses (£12.8m) in the UK, making it the highest grossing British to date. It had a production budget of £23m.

20th Century FOX distributed the film as well as Lionsgate (Canadian) to help market and exchange the film for a wider global audience, this is important because ETE (Eddie the Eagle) is a drama like ours. We need to research a British film however, because we need to see the kind of production studios we will use to put in our opening sequence when we present our own film company (Black sheep productions)


We will use MARV to partnership our film as people will see this and be aware they are quite a strong company as they have produced such a strong, touching drama film which is one of the UK's most successful.


Obviously we can't use a major American partnership like Walt Disney or 20th Century FOX because our production is only little and we feel the film wouldn't go international as it touches on a minority audience (Young people, teens) whereas big American companies produce family friendly films for everyone

Musical themes in Media

Leitmotif: A reoccurring theme throughout a film or musical, attached/associated with a character, location, emotion or situation.

An example of a leitmotif producer is; John Williams - Famous for:

• E.T and Jaws
• Star Wars - Darth Vader
• Indiana Jones
  
  
  
  
  
  This style of sound can be helpful if we plan to give our character a personality, we may not use this style of sound but we will consider it when filming and editing our final piece.